"To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'" - Ansel Adams
My name is Vic Mitchell and I am a fine art (as in not commercial) landscape photographer working with traditional photographic materials (silver and paper) who moonlights as a high-tech mercenary (probably more accurate the other way around but it is my daily quest to make it true).
So my passion is photography, it is part of my spiritual path and like breath itself for me. My subject is typically landscape or seascape but anything in illuminating light is a potential partner. My medium is camera, film, and the darkroom. My palette is color positive materials although I may be slowly being forced to color negative by the onslaught of digital frenzy.
"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster." - Ansel Adams
I came to myspace looking for fellow souls. After some browsing and a few friend requests it was clear that cyberland is made up of many posers and scammers. "I have met the enemy and he is us!" The optimist in me decided to leave this page up for a time just to see what may come...
"It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual’s temperament and environment." - Bill Brandt
All of my photos are subject to copyright ~ You may NOT copy or download them for commercial purposes without my permission!! The historical photos displayed here are copyright their owners.
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